Laundry apparatus



1927' E. J. PERRY ET AL 1645998 LAUNDRY APPARATUS Filed Oct. 13, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Q 1927' E. J. PERRY ET AL LAUNDRY APPARATUS Filed Oct. 13. 1924 2 sheets-shut 2 abtozmgb Patented Oct. 18, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMANUEL J. PERRY, OF FAIRHAVEN, AND FRED S. BOLTZ, OF MANSFIELD,

MASSACHUSETTS. v

LAUNDRY APPARATUS.

Application filed October 13, 1924. Serial No. 743,334.

In laundries it has generally been the custom to transport clothes from one apparatus to another by trucks, baskets and the like, and this system has always been recognized as one involving considerable expense and a loss of time.

The present invention aims to provide a system wherein clothes may be readily transported by means of movable receptacles travelling on overhead tracks, cables or the like, the system of tracks and cables being so arranged that the carrying receptacles may be freely moved to different parts of the laundry, as the occasion may require.

.111 the accompanying drawings we have shown a preferred embodiment of our apparatus in which Figure 1 illustrates a top plan view of the system, and

Fig. 2. represents a transverse sectional view taken on line 22 of Fig. 1..

Figure 3 is a longitudinal view of a receptacle carrying car.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings wherein like reference characters indicate corresponding parts, the numeral 1 designates a laundry room of the usual layout. This room has the usual receiving station 2 where the soiled clothes are first received. The laundry room is furthermore provided with a series of power washing machines 3 that may be of any preferred type and "driven by the usual power mechanism. Adjacent these machines in another part of the laundry is an extractor bench 4 beside which lie the extractors 5. Beyond the extractors 5 is a shaking out table 6, all of which mechanism is common to the usual power laundry.

Suspended at the roof of the laundry room we provide a series of tracks A and B which will now be discussed. The tracks A constitute the supporting tracks for the niovable receptacles for transporting soiled clothes from the receiving station 2 to the washers 3. Tracks A are arranged, one track 7 constituting the track over which the receptacles are advancing in the direction of. the arrow, the same having branches 8 and 9 leading respectively to the washers 3. The

return section 10 of the track A leads from the tracks 8 and 9, a switching mechanism being provided by means of which the receptacles passing to the washers 3 may be shifted back over the tracks 10 to the receiving stat-ion, these receptacles at this time'being, of course, empty.

The track B constitutes a shifting track extending between the washers? and carry- 1ng receptacles for receiving the clothes removed from the washer and for carrying them through the branch 11 and extensions 12 and 13 to a point adjacent the extractor bench. By this means the clothes from the washer may be conveniently delivered to the extractor bench for further treatment in the laundry.

The tracks A receive suitable carriers or' trucks consisting of receptacles 14 suspended from roller supports 15 that move on the track. The bottoms of these receptacles are so constructed that they may be freely swung open and the receptacles, of course, move along the various branches of the track A brlnging the clothes from the receiving station to any one of the washers and for dropping the clothes in the appropriate washer. After depositing the contents from any of these receptacles or carriers assumlng that it is moved along the extension 8 of the track A, this carrier is then moved along the extension 11 and back to the receiving station for a further supply of soiled clothes. The carriers are li 'ed upward to the extension 7 of the track A by the endless carrying devices thereon for receiving the Wheels 15 of the carrier C and for lifting them to the track 7.

After garments have been washed in the washers 3 they are discharged into receptacles 17, which receptacles are suspended upon rollers 18 which travel on the track B.

and the extensions thereof. These receptacles after receiving a charge of clothes are raised by the chains 18 and then moved.

along over the extensions 11, 12 and 13 of the track B to the extractor table 4. If desirable, a series of these receptacles, each constituting a certain wash may be lifted into a car 19 having supporting wheels 20 and moved therein over the supporting tracks 11, 12 and 13 to the extractor bench 4. That is to say, the construction is one wherein the individual receptacles can be moved over their own pulleys 18 to their own extractor bench, or a series of receptacles can be placed in a car 19 and moved therein to the bench. It will be understood that these receptacles travel over a series of tracks entirely distinct and independent of the tracks A.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is:

1. In a laundry, the combination with Washing apparatus, of a conveyor system including tracks leading to and from said washing apparatus, movable carriers adapt-- ed to be moved over said tracks, an independent track system extending adjacent said washers, an extractor bench along said independent track mechanism, and receptacles movable over said independent track mechanism for transporting garments from the washing apparatus to said extractors.

. 2. A conveyor system comprising a series of tracks, carriers movable over said tracks for moving garments to a washer and for returning said carriers to a garment receiving station, an independent track adjacent said first mentioned track, and conveyors movable thereover for transporting garments from one apparatus to another.

3. In a laundry, the combination with Washer apparatus, extractors disposed adjacent said apparatus, a clothes receiving station, tracks extending from said receiving station to said washing apparatus, carriers movable over said tracks for transporting garments from the receiving station to said washing apparatus and over which said carriers travel from the washing apparatus back to the receiving station, an independent set of tracks extending from said Wash- 'ig apparatus to said extractors and carriers movable over said last mentioned tracks for transporting cleansed garments from the washing apparatus to said extrac- I tors.

In testimony whereof We aflix our signatures.

EMANUEL J. PERRY. FRED S. BOLTZ. 

